Word: yassir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violent path down which Yassir Arafat has led Palestinians has been a complete moral and strategic failure. Palestinians have lived in makeshift camps for nearly 40 years, and their "leaders" have resisted Israeli attempts to provide them with better housing. Saudi petro-billions have bought the Palestinians machine guns, not a better life...
Noting that the terrorists belong to a faction that opposes P.L.O. leader Yassir Arafat, Mylroie said the hijacking was likely intended to sabotage peace negotiations currently underway between Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein...
Along similar lines, Assistant Professor of History Zachary Lockman, a specialist in modern Middle Eastern history, said that the Palestinian Liberation Front "wants to undermine Yassir Arafat by attacking Italy, a country with which the Arafat faction has had good relations...
...history of racially motivated insults directed his way, including his daughter's admissions interview for Harvard three years ago. In a Crimson interview. Jackson charges Chicago attorney Stephen B. Cohen '61 with "harassment" of Santita Jackson because of her father's 1979 meeting with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yassir Arafat...
First, the destruction of the PLO, accomplished jointly in the past two years by Israeli, Syria, and factions within the organization itself, has almost removed the terrorist group as a viable factor in the Middle East. The rout of Yassir Arafat's and his men from Beirut, the subsequent fragmentation of the group, and now sectarian fighting in Tripoli have finally demonstrated to the world the utterbankruptcy of this band of terror and its complete lack of a mandate from the unfortunate Palestinian people. If Yassir Arafat's veto on negotiations can finally be removed, all parties, including the truly...